Essay about Disney Pixar Film : A Bug

Essay about Disney Pixar Film : A Bug

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“It 's a bug-eat-bug world out there, princess. One of those Circle of Life kind of things. Now let me tell you how things are supposed to work: The sun grows the food, the ants pick the food, the grasshoppers eat the food...”(Anderson,) Many people have seen this animated Disney Pixar film A Bug’s Life about a colony of ants working hard during the summer to collect food for an unsavory gang of grasshoppers led by Hopper (Kevin Spacey). However, one ant Flik (Dave Foley) accidentally knocks over the ceremonial leaf, which contains the season’s takings. Flik then sets out to find help in the ‘big city’, he enlists a troupe of travelling circus bugs to fight the grasshoppers off under the impression that they are warriors. At the end of the film a bird kills Hopper and the grasshoppers leave the ants in peace (Brodie, 2015). Although this is an ordinary cartoon, written into the scenes is way more than what meets the eye, this paper will argue that the film contains many sociological concepts of Karl Marx’s theories. This paper will prove that the Marxist theories, division of class and class conscious are used in the film through the characters and their interactions. It will begin with identifying the class divisions present, and then mention how these different classes interact and how class consciousness is seen in the film.
Karl Marx’s definition of social class is class is determined by relationship to the means of production and source or income, in the film the cloud of grasshoppers having high social class in comparison to of the colony of ants who have low class value. Many of the different characters in the film can be classified in Marxist terms of class divisions. Marx believed that society was divided by class, the c...

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...not about food; it 's about keeping those ants in line.” () They had to make that the ants did not realize their own right to food and keep collecting for the grasshoppers since that would ruin their way of life.
In conclusion, the Marxist theories division of class and class conscious are used in the film through the characters and their interactions. The cloud of grasshoppers are the Bourgeoisie (owning class), the colony of ants are the Proletariats(the working class) therefore the grasshoppers had control over the ants because the aunts work for the grasshoppers. In today’s present society there is still this class divisions where there are the owning class who owns the means of production and the working class who works to earn money. Moreover, since people in most societies today are the working class therefore we are just like the ants living under control.

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